New Ubuntu Foundation Announced

AccUser writes "Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical Ltd, founders of the popular Ubuntu Linux-based operating system, have today announced the creation of The Ubuntu Foundation with an initial funding commitment of US$10m. From the article: 'The Ubuntu Foundation will employ core Ubuntu community members to ensure that Ubuntu will remain fully supported for an extended period of time, and continue to produce new releases of the distribution. As a first step, the Foundation announces that Ubuntu version 6.04, due for release in April 2006, will be supported for three years on the desktop and five years on the server.'"

Comments

Re:How does Debian fit in?

[Anonymous Coward]

I really wish people would just try and help Debian if they have a problem with it instead of starting up yet another dist to make GNU/Linux "OS of a thousand distributions"

People did try to help Debian. The problem is that the Debian bureacracy is so thick that it is easier to deal with the federal government. The structure of the Debian organization discourages help, ideas, innovation and quality. The only way to help Debian would have been to destroy the entire organizational structure and start from scratch. Ubuntu is helping Debian - helping to put it out of it's misery.

Re:Ubuntu review

[kmmatthews]

Nice troll, Microsoftie. This seems to be typical lately - "Linux is great, except for ..." and then ending with "It's a million years behind Windows."

Now, go back to where you came from.

Re:What is the big deal about Ubuntu?

[kmmatthews]

Rather than posting obvious flamebait, why don't you download it and see?

Re:Happy to hear it

[0racle]

Then compared to Red Hat, exactly what has Ubantu given back? Making a droolproof version of Debian isn't giving back btw, thats just making another distro available.